13 TV shows in 1 DVD

[better life]

Hi: DVDs in China have each DVD contains 13 TV shows which each show lasts 45 minutes. Of cause, the picture quality is just like VCD but it saves a lot of space. I wonder how they make it, any advise please?

[lumis]

they're probably using mpeg 1 video, which is what the vcd standard uses. in fact, you can use vcd mpegs for dvd's, all you have to do is upsample the audio from 44.1khz to 48khz.

[Bjs]

Hows 14 whole movies on a dl dvd sound to you's .

That's how many FULL movie's I can fit on a single dl dvd .

Of course they are non-compliant vcd type mpegs and the picture and audio quality is much better than rotten standard vcd mpegs (audo is ac3), and my player shows me all tiles on the dvd in a folder view , allowing me to choose what I want to watch ...

Maybe I go screw up a disc now with a menu and see what happens to it , havent tried that yet ....

[freebird73717]

You could use 352 x 240 mpeg 2 and use a bitrate calculator to get the bitrate you would need to encode at based on how much time you want on the dvd. I've gotten close to 8 and 1/2 hours on one dvd with pretty fair quality.

[better life]

Is there a site for a newbie? The menu looks like a regular DVD movie, it lets us to choose the screen to play. I can fit a 3 hour movie into one dish by using TMPG programe, is the prodedule pretty the same as the one I know?

[freebird73717]

There are countless guides on this site to accomplish what you want. If you already know how to encode with tmpgenc then you already have half the battle. Just use a bitrate calculator and plug in the cumulative time you want on the disc then use that as your average bitrate in tmpgenc. Once all encoded then all you need to do is author them using one of many authoring programs around. I like dvdlab pro but if you want to check out something free then look into gui for dvdauthor.

[mats.hogberg]

Basically, encode to VCD specs mpg, but use 48 kHz audio. That's the whole trick. Author to DVD as usual. Around 7 hours fit on a single layer DVD this way.

/Mats

[better life]

Thanks guys. Before I have a DVD burner, I did pretty well in VCD authoring. My friend bought me a DVD burner which it is still in a box. I need to learn how DVD burning is different from VCD's. I've tried to encode a 2 hour long movie to a DVD format but it fits the whole DVD.

[thecoalman]

Thanks guys. Before I have a DVD burner, I did pretty well in VCD authoring. My friend bought me a DVD burner which it is still in a box. I need to learn how DVD burning is different from VCD's. I've tried to encode a 2 hour long movie to a DVD format but it fits the whole DVD.

You have to adjust the bitrate, VCD has standard bitrate of 1150 kbps. DVD mpeg2 can be adjusted up or down as can the resolution. Use the calculator here to determine what bitrate to use https://www.videohelp.com/calc.htm

You also want to use the correct resolution for whatever bitrate your using, lower bitrates require lower resolution and vice versa. http://www.digitalfaq.com/capture/avivsmpeg.htm

I was able to fit about 20 hours on a single layer DVD but that was just for a test, the video although watchable wasn't exactly something you'd want. There is a limit, VCD standard is about as low as you want to go.

[aguillon]

Yeah I ve done the DVD of VCD trick myself - as mentioned before you can just code your episodes to VCD specs with 48hz audio (I hv created a TMPGEnc template that does just that) and outputs elementary streams. Once I have these, I rename the mp2 files to mpv (video streams) and load the whole bunch into DVD Lab Pro.

Make a small menu with links to the individual episodes, use the autochapter tool to create chapter points in the episodes, and voila! You get a perfect DVD of TV shows, VCD quality. If I recall correctly, I could squeeze about 10 episodes of the show 24 onto one disk, i.e. about 7h of video onto one disk.

I ve also done multiple movies on one disk: about 4 movies will fit a single layer disk that way. Not fantastic quality, but easy to lug around (when the kids are on holiday for instance).

Cheers

[Raen]

Why not just get a dvd player that can play divx. Cyberhome has anew one out that even upscales to hdtv and is less than a hundred bucks. Phillips has one for 70. I have the entire Lost season(26 episodes including the Lost special) on 2 dvds. I could put them all on one dvd-dl but haven't tested the cyberhome for double layered blank dvd-r's yet(mainly because the lightscribe ones cost like 7 bucks each) DivX quality is way better than vcd quality, done right and it can be nearly as high quality as dvds.